Article ID: | iaor20003396 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 60/61 |
Start Page Number: | 369 |
End Page Number: | 374 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Seki Yoichi, Hoshino Naoto |
Keywords: | queues: applications |
We deal with a single-stage kanban system with Poisson demand arrivals and Erlang production times, and we study an optimization of the number of kanbans when a change of load to the system is planned. We formulate the system as an M/E